10 Best & Top Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Free

Everybody wants to drive quality traffic to their blog. It’s not an easy task. Here I’m going to discuss on some free methods which will make this task easier. 

1. Search Engine Optimization

I think the best way to drive a good traffic to your blog is Search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is the way to increase the visibility of your blog in search engines. There are two kinds of SEO. First one is Onpage SEO. Using the right keywords in Blog title, post title and post body are the main theme of Onpage Optimization.  Another one is Offpage SEO. In this optimization I will give more priority to link building.

2. Guest Posting

Guest posting means writing and publishing an article on someone else’s blog.  There are many benefits of it. It’s a great way to get quality backlinks. Moreover it will help you to promote your blog and improve your writing skill. By guest posting you can also establish a good relationship between bloggers. So every blogger should be guest posting.

3. Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is another effective way to get visitors to your blog. You can submit yourarticle link to various social bookmarking site like Facebook,  Digg, Twitter, Reddit, Delicious, Stumbleupon. Try to increase more followers or friends on these sites.  They will help you to get more returnedvisitors. Moreover, social bookmarking is also important for building links.

4. Forum Posting

There are a lot of forums on different topics.  You can use these forums to drive some visitor to your blog. In the forums you will easily get your target audience to introduce your blog or share your article. Becoming a part of conversations will also help you to do that. Many forums allow signatures which can be used as backlinks.

5. Use Document Sharing Site

You can convert your article into PDF format and upload it to different document sharing sites like Docstoc, Slideshare, Scribd and so on. Actually these sharing sites are highlyranked and get a lot of visitors every day. You can get some of these visitors by sharing your article.

6. Use Free Advertising Exchange

There are several blogs which allow exchanging your ads with them. Those who don’t want to spend money on advertising they can use this method. There are some 1:1 hits exchange sites which will help you to get some traffic. Easyhits4U, TrafficG aretwo of these sites. . You can earn credits from these sites by surfing and they will allow you to use these credits to advertise your site.

7. Make it Easy for Readers to Share Your Content

There are many social plugins or widget which will help you to do this. Making a visitor to share your contents is one of the simplest ways to get visitors to your posts. Don’t use so many widgets because they will decrease the loading speed of your blog.

8. Video Sharing

Now-a-days video sharing sites are getting more popular. Why don’t you just make an interesting and helpful video and supply your blog link with it. Thus you can introduce your blog to many people. YouTube, Dalymotion, Myspace are the examples of video sharing site.

9. Create a Free E-book

If you have good knowledge on a topic then you can write a free E-Book on it. At the end of the book add a link of your site. Now just try to popular this book and you will get easy traffic.

10. Ping your Blog

When you change anything on yourblog don’t forget to ping it. Pingler is one of these sites. It’s very easy to ping a site. Just go to this site and fill out a form with the proper information. Then press OK button and you will be done. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 minutes to finish pinging.

Conclusion

I think this post will be helpful toyou. If you have any problem or question please share it through the comment form.